To motivate people to participate in outing the document, WikiLeaks also posted a video on YouTube:

“The transparency clock has run out on the TPP. No more secrecy. No more excuses. Let’s open the TPP once and for all,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement.

The AFL-CIO has been demanding to have the text of the agreement made public, as have Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who say that it is critically important to ensure that the agreement adequately protects workers and the environment.—Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor in Chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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